"As you work you gain a greater awareness of your body, its preferences, and begin noticing how even tiny physical changes can affect your inner states. You start to really inhabit your body, and see how the subtlest shift in your body affects your inner landscape. Sensing this mysterious connection, moment by moment, as we perform is quite wonderful." ( Yosi Oida)

Welcome to Physical Theatre. In the here and now.

In the live moment.

Discover the path of individual and collective psychophysical research and theatrical performance.
A theatrical expression through the body as a medium of experience and intention. A communication with ourselves and the selves of others through the instinctive mind, the deeper perception, synthesizing moments of authentic communication.
Aliki Dourmazer bases her educational work and her performance research on the principles of 'Ensemble Physical Theatre' combined with the exploration of the Vocal dynamic of the performer as an integral part of his expressive status.

Workshop on the Voice of the performer. ‘Voice is the Body’ with Aliki Dourmazer ‘Voice is the body and the body is the voice’ This vocal practical workshop, “Voice is the body” , aims to generate the activation of the organic connection with the performer’s own voice thus the transformation of the inner vibration to an outer sound stimulus. Τhe […]

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I am fond of therapeutic pathways. I am fond of healing processes. Psychoanalysis, is a largely appreciated science of the discovering of a pathway through the mind where we are able to analyze, spot, explain and define in logical terms processes that have affected us since childhood and have left their traumatic mark in our psyche, affecting our behavioral […]

Αs I observe my practice I am observing something happening to the world in general… Τhe focus is shifting from the physical to the mental and the spiritual. From the low frequencies to the high frequencies… The mind is beginning to wake up to the body… Hundreds of people maybe thousands, maybe even millions are working towards this…Many are […]

Bodymind is a compound of body and mind, which in the disciplines of humanistic psychology and spirituality, researchers in the second half of the twentieth century had begun studying in order to move beyond the dualist conceptions of body and mind towards a unified and interrelated concept of a bodymind. The term is related to the older concepts psychosomatic and somatopsychic. Dualistic concept Perhaps the leading exponent of an earlier dualistic […]

‘Working from the gut’ The following quote from the biography movie on Ludwig van Beethoven reminded me of the audience’s reflection on my Solo Performance ‘MEDuLA’ which was that it was affecting and communicating with them initially and strongly in the gut. And also reminded me of my teacher and great master Phillip Zarrilli who was training us to […]

What do you do when three days before teaching a voice workshop you lose your own voice? The options are simple. You either cancel it or you remain calm and keep your hopes high. Right after teaching a wonderful workshop in University Campus in Oldham, UK, I caught a very intense cold after being exposed to […]